By way of Drew McWeeny at HitFix comes this Variety article wherein Peter Bogdanovich drops the news that we could see Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind screen this summer at Cannes. Going hypothetical here, how would a film like this potentially qualify for awards consideration, taking for granted that it's illuminating and a definite spectacle to be seen?

There are posthumous awards given every so often, but this is an entirely different thing altogether. Since the film will not have been edited and completed until 2009 (again, assuming), it's a 2009 film that was shot in the 1970s. Will a furore erupt from the west coast when the film's title is mentioned for awards consideration, since the principal participants are mostly dead, and therefore in no need of ego or career boosts?

Hell, I just want to see this film. The fact it could be finished, edited, and seen reignites the hope that somewhere in someone's vault exists the negative for The Magnificent Ambersons, or at least the pre-test screening cut.